Thursday, May 19, 2005

The Eye of Horus, Part One

"Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!" - Aleister Crowley

What are we talking about, when we talk about Crowley talking about the Eye of Horus? You may be surprised: "Those familiar with Crowley's sex magick references know the Eye of Horus refers to the anus and the Mouth of Isis is the vagina."

When Crowley reorganized the Ordo Templi Orientis, the higher degrees were graded according to his schema of sex magick. The highest degree, and unassociated with those below it, was the eleventh. It's signature was anal intercourse.

From "Anal Intercourse and the OTO," a summary of the correlation of degrees to Crowley's sex magick:

VII° Adoration of the phallus as Baphomet, both within and withoutVIII° Interaction with something outside the closed vessels of the vagina and the anusIX° Interaction inside the vagina with either the blood or the secretions of a woman when excitedX° Impregnation + fertilisation of an egg + the act of creation or succession (e.g. election of the OHO)XI° Two-folded: i) Isolation in the anus [per vas nefandum] where it is considered unable to interact with anything at all ii) interaction with excrements (one of Crowley’s preferred ingredients) and small amounts of blood (when small wounds occur through the intercourse), mucus and of course the mucous membranes that lead directly into the blood supply, etc.

Some who discount the relevance of Crowley and his visions draw attention to his anal fixation as reason why he is not an entirely serious figure. After all, why should we credit, as I have here, his covert influence upon the Dark Powers of our times, when he was almost literally talking out his ass?

The answer is that the power of anal intercourse as a violation of taboo - and so, therefore, a conduit for great elemental magick - is not original with Crowley. It can be found in our prehistory, in the shadow history of both church and state, and in even the high weirdness of alien abductions, and their stories of sexual violation and "anal probes." (And before I proceed, I hope it's understood that I'm not talking about gay sex, but about ritualized anal intercourse, which can be either homosexual or heterosexual. It's not about sex, but about elemental sex magick.)

Admittedly, this is a strange topic. Bums don't appear particularly serious. They're about the funniest things we have going for us; they even make silly noises all on their own. Even a violated anus, in our culture, is an object of humour. (The "don't drop the soap" quips about prison rape; the "anal probe" jokes at the expense of abductees such as Whitley Strieber.)

And that's the point: it's the primeval, taboo-busting inversion of values that gives black magick both its power and its absence of light. There's nothing lower than the anus, and seemingly less deserving of elevation.

But the regarded magick in breaking sexual taboo is not just about the anus. There are other taboos, as well. As we've seen too frequently in examples of ritual abuse, it's also about children, and about violating the incest taboo.

Today's story out of Lousinana, of the investigation into a church which secretly practiced child rape and bestiality, is further evidence of the persistence of the ancient notion of metaphysical power in shattering physical taboos. I expect many will regard this case as one of simple sexual perversion, and presume the church served as nothing more than a convenient cover, without considering the sacramental nature of the crimes, and that the secret teachings of the church served as inspiration. (It perhaps deserves mention that one church member in custody is also a member of the police force.)

This could be dismissed as the aberrations of a backwoods church of no influence, if its aberrations were not mirrored in the hidden history of those with great influence.

A few days ago Tim Boucher posted a fascinating quote by Joseph Campbell on pre-modern secret societies, from Campbell's Masks of God: Primative Mythology:

Admission to them is through election and they are generally limited: they are not for all... [They reach] beyond the local tribe seeking out friends and members among alien peoples... a particular stress is given in these secret men’s societies to a skull cult that is often associated with the headhunt. Ritual cannibalism and pederasty are commonly practiced and there is a highly elaborated use made of drums and masks.

As Tim wrote, "If this doesn’t start ringing all kinds of bells with modern conspiracy theory, especially in terms of secret societies, and ritual abuse, then I don’t know what does." It should ring a bell for those who've heard Kay Griggs, wife of Marine Colonel George Griggs and her witness to ritualized homosexual rape and systemic paedophilia in the highest ranks of the US military and government.

We know the significance of a "skull" cult to Bonesmen. We've learned much about pederasty among the elite. We've even read accounts of ritual cannibalism, real and simulated, by survivors of ritual abuse. All these dark things that seem so foreign to our world, and strain at our sophistication and capacity to comprehend, have actually been practiced for thousands of years. Why not today? It's presumptively naive to wish it all away with a few generations of secular modernity, particularly when evidence and testimony suggest it endures.

I'll get back to this and develop it more, particularly how it may relate to the ripe-for-ridicule stories of alien rape and anal "probes."

1063 Comments:

im glad you picked up this topic, because i plan to write more about it later. i found some other good references for aboriginal initiation rites and ill probably post on it later tonight. one of the more interesting things i found was that in certain australian and melanesian tribes, ritual pederasty is not only commonplace but considered necessary. its believed that women reach sexual maturity on their own, but that boys need to be inseminated by their older peers in order to become fertile themselves. once they reach a certain age though, their sexual lives consist exclusively of heterosexual activity.

anyway, i thought it might be interesting to try and link this idea with alien abductions where they "inseminate" you with a tracking device.... more soon

Look, this isn’t pretty, but it’s really important that you posted it … It took me a long while (a few years) to realize where my friends pain was after RA abductions and attacks. She was too ashamed to tell me.

There were a few instances late last year and early this year when the perpetrators used her phone to send me text messages once they had abducted her. They always made gratuitous reference to bleeding and faeces – “raping a bound b*tch till she bleeds” and “we’ll make her lick up the mess” are two stand-outs.

The dots are there, you just have to join them up. And they spell C R O W L E Y.

One other factor that may be relevant is that the kind of men's cults you are referencing are generally based on a profound fear of women, an association of the vagina (and particularly menstrual blood) with disease and death, and adolescent initiations which aim at separating the young men from the female sphere and having them reborn from the male. (Or, at the very least, resuckled -- with semen substituted for mother's milk.)

Warrior cultures also have traditionally been marked by a fear of the feminine and a more-or-less formal substitution of pederasty for mature male-female relationships.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately in the light of recent Republican sex scandals. There is a kind of cult of hyper-masculinity on the right that may be expressed either through demeaning of the female partner (Bolton, Ryan) or through submission to an ultra-hard male partner (a la Gannon.) This rejection of the feminine is strongly connected with the general psychological stance of "tough-minded" conservatives (as opposed to the more feminine-accepting, "soft-minded" liberals.)

In mysticism as in politics, the most mature and fully-developed figures always seem to have had a deep appreciation of the feminine principle. (And this is true regardless of whether they are heterosexual or homosexual.) In contrast, the scandalous bad boys like Crowley give the impression of being clever in certain regards but ultimately immature and incomplete as individuals.

Exactly - because it's all about power. Recognition of the power of females and female sexuality, by a man, admits a certain powerlessness, by that man. With everything we're talking about - with everything, especially, that (all elites, but especially) the Republican Party is about, it is about men having ultimate power, and especially over sexuality and sexual practices, and ESPECIALLY over women's sexuality and sexual practices. Because that is a potential source of weakness, and must be avoided.

http://www.resurrectisis.org/Q1WebPage.htm I guess the reason I find this interesting and timely, is the overheating of the Latent Homosexuals (and I could care less about your sexual inclination, I am talking about Hypocrisy, capital H.) in the US at this time.

They are projecting so much, they could be called Gay movie theaters.

Quite frankly, I wasn't hangin' out with all the other male cheerleaders for nuthin'.

Just wanted to add from my perspective the all male prep schools in the Northeast where Bush and Kerry and others went (Andover, Groton, Exeter, St. Johns, etc.).

Recruiting for the secret societies like Skull and Bones at Yale (Bush. Kerry), the tea clubs at Princeton (Dulles, Rumsfeld, Nader, Carlucci of CIA/Carlyle Mumumba assassination fame) and the other one at Harvard (Porcellian) these ALL have I believe, an element of sexual blackmail and oppression.

Young teens are "recruited" and initiated into sexual practices (usually homosexual if they can be coerced or poersuaded into it) and then they become compromised. They become good agents of the fascists when they get to the ivy league and then on into financial, military, intel (sic), political and corporate fascist careers.

I have often wondered (having been to a small degree a victim of this system) the extent of the pedophilic aspect of the coercion and the recruiting.

Recently Groton School, who is being sued by a former male student for sexual abuse at the school by other male students - was convicted of failing to report such abuse.

This is a school which had FDR and McGeorge Bundy and the Hitler financing (with Prescott Bush) Harriman brothers and which admittedly permits the recruitment of its lads for the intel-military crypto-fascist secret societies on its campus.

It was a scary time for me there, but I escaped relatively unscathed - despite what I perceived to be a grand conspiracy to sexually pervert my innocence at the tender age of 12-14.

It is an important copmponent to this whole fucking mess that these WASP schools promoted such abuse and horror and that its heirs, like the BFEE, continue the atrocities globally.

interesting post, jeff. i find it really funny, of course, that these whackos would elevate their favorite sexual object - the bunghole - to a mythological object of adoration - the "eye of horus" - in their weird superstitions. i almost rolled of the chair laughing with that rant about how superior horus' eye is to isis' mouth :-)

apart from the funny side of it all, there are some things which come to mind regarding the "eye of horus" stuff:

- have you (or anybody reading this) ever heard of a secret society known as "the white circle" ? at the beginning of last year somebody mentioned to me that such a society, which he characterized as a cabal or conspiracy of homosexuals, was taking over positions of influence and power in governments and other influencial organizations everywhere.

---regarding crowley, and his LAM stuff: check here

http://www.healthstones.com/mineraldata/beliefs/chakra/chakra.html

and you'll see that the mantra for the second chakra (the sexual energy center) is actually "LAM". don't know if there is any relationship, but given that crowley was apparently an english agent and the english are known to corrupt religions as ways of taking over societies, it would make some sense to me to suspect a (corrupted) connex.

---continuing with the (by now probably off-topic) topic of chakras, there is a weird article related to chakras and circumcision and some related nefarious stuff to be found here:

http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/05/0404-souls.html

it says among other things that jews are the cattle of the "levites", whoever they might be. the thing about chakras is: where does such knowledge (if it is not superstition) come from ? if you read how they "make" their "cattle", i see some relation to the themes of child abuse and secret societies. if you check what the article says, take in account the buggery and random abuse practices against children which have been object of debate here, and cross-check all that against effects of blockage of the various chakras then one could advance a coarse theory saying that "they" do this stuff for mainly two reasons (apart from the obvious fun), namely on the one side to produce more people "like them" which they could trust and to whom give over control of their little dirty secret things. this aspect would be like the induction process into some of their "societies" and the creation of a population of people who will do their will and are bound by common rituals, secrets, shame, experiences, fear, ... to be infinitely loyal to their cause.

the second aspect of their activities are the rituals themselves, the child rape, buggery, whatever. these activities support aspect one, and here we see a differentiation between the wheat and the chaff: the good or useful ones are initiated into the society by way of these rituals, the other ones are spent (killed) during these rituals.

occassionally discovered multiple graves of children or people like cathy sullivan coming out of the bushes and relating their experiences are but the failures of these social processes. all the bullshit of satanism, demonology, occultism ... is just the cover superstition they need in order to feel good and somehow justify what they do before themselves. these superstitions are like the law: all lawyers know that law is ultimately whim, fiction composed of ficticious constructs, but everybody takes this stuff for granted and acts "as if" it were real. it is creation of reality by acting it up.

since i'm probably already far off-topic, lemme just continue a while. the thing with "acting as if", bringing their power reality into existence by way of weird and bloody rituals degenerate in all kind of ways, is again product of the probably all too often encounter of these people with death in their daily life.

death is a shock in life to anybody, even desensitized people. it is the ultimate negation, the unknowable and not understandable, the dissolution of the individual. in short it scares the shit out of everybody. since humanity exists, people have built all sort of weird mental constructs around death in order to make it more acceptable, comprehensible, softer to the concious mind at least. we know such constructs as religions. religions and religious rituals have become part of of human experience and have shown themselves as positive companions to humanity (despite whatever else one may object against religions).

but what the "satanists" do is a bit different. they use death, that is, mistreating and killing other people, as their religion, as a way to show to themselves that they themselves can overcome death but the poor fucks they murder do not. but in the way they use death, it is like a drug. it gives them a short and intense high, a flash of power, but with every time they use their drug, the effect becomes less and shorter, and soon (and each time sooner) they'll be out, killing some other victim to overcome their ever more intense, never receding fear. in short, satanists have taken religion, subverted and abused it.

i think the book "the lord of the flies" describes the weirdness to some extent. i hope to not have burdened your all patience too much.

... 1,000 semi-naked Navy boys attempting to mount an obelisk covered in lard? Herndon, they call it at the U.S. Naval Academy, and Chrisafer, our friend down in DC (bless him) has this year's ceremony well-documented....

Why must one look for ‘universals’ or anything else? Crowley was just a perverse fool being used by Satan. And Satan is insane, literally. As with all the insane, they do have behavior patterns, but one need not be surprised when failing to find the patterns inconsistent with ultimate logic or reality. Satan, who “loveth and maketh a lie”, ultimately falls victim to the disconnection from truth that lying creates in the mind – insanity. All those who adopt this Satanic principle of “loving and making a lie” create disconnection from reality within their own mind and thus sow the seeds of their own insanity. Is it any wonder that evil and perversity go hand in hand?

Sometime ago I read of a study someone made on historical figures that would be fairly generally considered ‘evil’, i.e., Hitler, Stalin, Nero, and perhaps some non-heads of state too, such as Billy the Kid. In other words, sociopaths who have no qualms about killing, hurting, or using or abusing others. The idea was to examine the personality characteristics of the various candidates, and see what corallaries, if any, might be identified. The long and short of it was that the author claimed there are two personality characteristics universal to all evil sociopaths. These characteristics were given as, 1) narcissicism, or self-admiration, and 2) they are comfortable with lying.

So, for summary: Evil beings, human and non, are always liars, who enjoy playing fast and loose with ‘truth’ for the power of controlling and manipulating the thoughts of others to fit their own purposes. The real disconnection from reality is within their own minds, for they “love not the truth”.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

I noticed some symbolic similarities between elements of the article, the comments, and Chinese homosexual history. Up through the early 19th century, it was common for influential Chinese men to have much younger male consorts. There was however a great stigma attached to being the "penetrated" partner and in some senses it reduced the penetrated to the status of a woman. The penetrator was a patron to his consort and similar to the aboriginal practice listed in an early comment (referenced in the book from which I got alot of this info) the penetrated would usually be set up with a home and heterosexual marriage after reaching a certain age. Many of the documents on gay sex in premodern China are fairly harsh (lots of reference to the boy's pain), decidedly anal rather than oral in fixation, and deal with boys generally no younger than 8 or older than 16. Also throughout Chinese history Buddhist Monks, Taoist Monks and those seen as sorcerers were frequently accused of pedophelia and child abduction/rape/murder. In most cases it seems, the monks/"sorcerers" in question were guilty simply of holding heterodox views and of belonging to China's underclass and thus were scapegoated. However this does not seem to be the case with the modern Western pedophiles (neo-Crowlyites or not), who are obviously guilty and seem to revel in the sheer evil of it.

I'm a little concerned about those seeking linkages between initiatory rites in Melanesia and Crowley's obsession with the "Eye of Horus." There is a distinct difference between deliberate sexual perversion (ritual abuse), sex magick, and rites of passage. (Although I grant there are similarities in the methods and purpose, which I see some of you doing, and rather well.)

However, it is important to me, as someone who studied anthropology with Prof. Frederick Errington, an expert in Melanesian and South Pacific cultures, to post a remark about careful discernment.

Initiatory rites have three stages: separation, liminality, then re-emergence and acceptance as an adult person into the tribe.

Melanesian, or Aboriginal, rites of passage begin with a separation of the boys from their mothers. They are brought to a place they have never been. They recognize nothing. They are treated strangely, perhaps dressed in women's clothes. They are often drugged. Everything that happens to them in this liminal state is meant to completely erase whatever they knew and learned before - mother knowledge, if you will, which is considered inappropriate for an adult male.

When the initiation ceremonies reach their peak, the boys are marked in some way - some tribes burn the skin, or use tatooing. When the adult males consider the initiation to be complete, the boys are brought back to the village and use their adult names, and are accepted as adult men.

The attachment to the mother (and feminine ways) is forever broken. This is common in hunter-gatherer cultuers. The reason for the initiatory rites have everything to do with creating a man -- in the context of aboriginal hunter-gatherer culture. It has nothing to do with sexual perversion, mind control, or black magick, although elements of each can be seen by our ethnocentric eyes in the intiatory rites.

While there are similarities to the initiatory method of separation, liminality, re-emergence in RA, it is not a culture-bound practice, as is the Melanesian rituals (which do include pederasty - the male ejaculate is seen as a "magical fluid" which creates fertility in men). Instead, RA seems to be a melange of religious and sexual perversion in purusit of power over others (MK Ultra, etc.) There is no positive social outcome to RA, or to what Crowley did. One could not say that about the Melanesian practices.

Anyway, that's my .02.

I love the way you guys think -- you've posted some really fine stuff here. Just be aware that you are making linkages based on yourselves as Westerners trying to make meaning of non-Western customs. Some things get lost in the translation.

morgan, i understand and agree with what you're saying. and i dont think anyone is trying to say that primitive cultures engaged in black magic, etc. what i was getting at with the connection was that there are vast historical precedents among many cultures for this sort of thing.

im interested in tracking down the connections between so-called primitive initiation rites, and the rites of passage used today in occult and other circles. everything you said about wiping away the old value system of a child and replacing it with one suitable for an adult makes perfect sense in light of occult initiation. new values and allegiances are imprinted through these rituals....

also, you might want to consider who you are accusing of ethnocentric attitudes. while to people in the west, primitive initiations might seem weird - you could make the same argument for Ritual Abuse/Occult practices. they are effectively a different culture with different ethics.

its definitely important that we realize our own biases as we study such things. and its equally important that saying that RA is a "melange of religious and sexual perversion in purusit of power over others" is fundamentally no different from making that assertion about primitive initiation rites. both are equally biased, although a case for each could also be made very readily

You and I both know you are not accusing the Melanesians (et al) of black magick - so I guess I'm cautioning you to be make it clear that there are postitive vs. negative aspects to these practices. The rites of passage enacted in Melanesia are socially positive.

Moreover, the word 'occult' has negative connotations in Western Judeo-Christian culture. My concern is that attempts to make linkages between Crowley's occultism, RA, and the initiation rituals of the Melanesians will somehow do a disservice to the Melanesians.

Many people still believe that non-Western religious rituals, such as those practiced by the Melanesians, are Satanic in nature, thus conflating the non-Christian with the Satanic.

Crowley's rituals involved a perversion of Christianity. That is to say, he believed in Satan, a distinctly Western entity rooted in the Judeo-Christian belief system. Since Satan does not exist to the Melanesians, and they do not enact rituals to invoke Satan, they have never practiced what Westerners would ordinarily term occultism.

As long as folks don't start thinking that Satanism, and RA, began with the "Godless heathens" of Melanesia, I'm just fine with your working hypothesis.

When I'm want to get at the root of what I'm researching, I think with Emile Durkheim. He would ask, "What is the function of X? What seem to be the reasons for this practice? How does this practice or set of practices serve the needs of the whole? Is the social outcome postive or negative? How does the outcome reinforce the cultural ethos of the whole group?" These questions might help inform your scholarly journey into the background, patterns, and of initiation rites.

I look forward to your investigations and have bookmarked your page for further reading.

This is probably too late to be read, and in the wrong place, but;The mark of Annu is a "star". This is the eight-pointed cross-over-a-cross that is found all over Washington official buildings as "decoration". It doesn't take a genius to correlate that to the anus; the mark of Annu IS a cartoon depiction of the anus; the rays transmuted into the puckering lines of the sphincter. As above, so below, and King Midas in reverse. The sun shines out of his arse. Literally.

The 11th degree is also specifically related to homosexuality because it forms a symbol of the two phalluses, just as the 10th is a symbol of the phallus and vagina (what's the symbolic version of vagina? Lingam and Yoni, anyway). Cue lots of numerological nonsense connecting 9/11, 3/11, 7/7, Flight 77 etc. What's today (i'm writing from London)? Oh crikey, its 21/7! 21/7 = 3! 3,2,1 - You're back in the room. and so on.

It will surprise no-one if I here suggest that skyscrapers are a phallic symbol, but we might ask ourselves just how unconscious the development of the fashion for skyscrapers was. Presumably the Washington monument wasn't built so high to maximise real estate value, and once there's a huge stone penis at the heart of the nation, people are going to want to copy it. Building two skyscrapers of equal height next to one another has got to carry some kind of symbolic charge in itself, but was it deliberate? Marina Warner wrote something after 9/11 pointing out the recurrence of the motif. Something to do with the Pillars of Hercules. I forget. Apparently they're cunningly concealed beneath the 'S' in the US dollar sign. They squeezed a lot onto that currency didn't they? They look more like the two world-trees of life and knowledge wrapped around by some kind of Luciferic serpent to me, but then after a while everything starts to look symbolic of everything else.

Who commissioned those towers in the first place? If they thought it would be nice if the WTC looked like the dollar sign, is that proof of conspiracy, or just a good bit of urban design? I am vexed by such imponderables...

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